ELECTRIC BLUE

I find i mostly oversize when trying something first, then after doing a few drawings on the same subject the lines get familiar and i can downsize the piece, since i'm still in the early phases of tattooing i spend like half the time drawing, and the rest divides tween tattooing and checking references

So far, most painfull was getting the aum mani padme hum mantra across my midriff coloured in by hand by a young and therefor inexperienced japanese tattooist, followed closely by me putting a firebreathing skull on my left ribcage using the nipple as eyesocket, as ever the masochist apprentice, in the end taking ten minute breaks for every five minutes of tattooing! Usually the only complaint i have is a damn stiff neck